A while back I began a new piece of artwork, quite an ambitious one using some of my sketchbook drawings of older women and a Victorian corset pattern to create a 3D piece in cyanotype, an archaic photographic technique. I cut the pieces from some lovely Somerset Velvet paper, 12 in all, and scanned and printed some of my drawings onto sheets of acetate (after reversing them in Photoshop so they are negatives). Yesterday, I coated the pieces of Somerset with the cyanotype chemicals and put them to dry overnight in a lightproof cupboard. And today I took them to Swansea Print Workshop to develop them in the UV Unit.
After exposing them for 6 minutes, I washed them face down to start the developing process then turned them over – you never know if it’s worked until this point. I’m delighted with them. They were drained for 10 minutes then I put them between sheets of tissue paper between low-density fibre drying boards.
Next step is to assemble them and get them ready for the exhibition. More about that tomorrow……..
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Sounds complicated, but I like the look of it!
Thank you. It’s complicated but you get used to it 😀
Very interesting, can’t wait to see the finished art.
Of course you know that it’s Worldwide Cyanotype Day on Sunday, don’t you?
Good timing, Rosie!
Fabulous drawings and project. nice to see drawings instead of photographic images for this process, too. Not the usual fare!
Thanks Mary and no I didn’t know. What a coincidence 😀
These are looking beautiful Rosie. You said in a previous pist that you would lace them together – are you planning on displaying them ‘in the round’?
Auto correct failure – that’s ‘post’ not ‘pist’.
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I’m not sure yet, Leonie. I am going to have a look at the display space today.